Price Research: Our research indicates that this OBi100 VoIP Telephone Adapter & Voice Service Bridge is $10 lower (25% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $40. - brisar

1) Cheapest E911 provider is Anveo (at $0.8/month) http://www.anveo.com/service.asp (FREE plan and add E911)
1.5) If you are switching from POTS to Obi or other voip services, in many states the old phone line will remain active for calling 911. You just leave your phone connected and they disabled outgoing calls at the phone company computers.
2) if you do not want to 'dedicate' a SIP slot for E911, you can use http://www.gv911.com/ - costs $12/year
3) before you start porting your number to GV, check this first http://www.obihai.com/porttutorial.html
4) configuring 'single' stage dialing here - http://www.obitalk.com/forum/inde...pic=1103.0
5) cheapest pay-per-minute is by localphone.com at 0.5 cent/minute to US numbers
6) MagicJack/Nettalk/Ooma can be connected to the POTS line of this obi110 - look at obitalk forum for more info on this. (in theory these are next best to free GV)
7) For people want alternative to GV, here are some good quality and/or low price Voips. Some of those VoIP Services offer phone number in other countries also. Remember this is a standard SIP device so you are not tie to GV and any specific Voip.http://pbxinaflash.com/vitelity/ (Looks like Vitelity quality is gone. Read this thread in DSLReports for discussion about Vitelity quality[broadbandreports.com]http://www.callcentric.com/ <--- many SDers and people in other Voip forum recommend this. WARNING: SERVICE HAS DEGRADED RECENTLY due to repeated and prolonged DDOS attacks. They were also out a solid 7days due to Hurricane Sandy. (they are in NYC) Callcentric currently offer FREE NY phone number with free unlimited incoming callshttp://www.voip.ms/ <--- many SDers and people in other Voip forum recommend this.flowroute[flowroute.com]
For free incoming call, you can also use IpKall. It works with Callcentric to provide free local number in Washington State and free incoming call.http://www.ipkall.com/
Here are some of the Voip that offer very low price International Calls
Onesuite and localphone offer a lot of local access number so can use it without Voip device. Those two also offer international local access number which you can use outside US. Check their website for more info.http://www.onesuite.com (Onesuite has been around for 10+ years and consistently great quality)http://www.localphone.com (cheapest pay-per-minute is by localphone.com at 0.5 cent/minute to US numbers)

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Last shopping season, they have buy one get one free. And now, Obi has promotion few weeks before Thanksgiving. Looks like this coming thanksgiving/Christmas, Obihai may get even cheaper especially with the uncertainty of Google Voice.

Last shopping season, they have buy one get one free. And now, Obi has promotion few weeks before Thanksgiving. Looks like this coming thanksgiving/Christmas, Obihai may get even cheaper especially with the uncertainty of Google Voice.

That's what I'm thinking also.. Google voice might not be free anymore next year so they are selling as much as they can now.

Correct, you do not need a landline. You connect your standard telephone to the Obi100.

Google Voice will only port mobile numbers. They charge $20 to port and it's done in 24 hours.

I ported my landline to Google Voice by first porting it to T-Mobile, which took about a week. I used an activation kit which included a SIM card and a $10 credit. Porting to T-Mobile is free. You will get some premature texts from T-Mobile stating the port is complete. Do not port to GV until your mobile rings when you call your ported number from a non-T-Mobile phone.

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I don't need landline phone service for this, right?
Would it be a great idea to replace landline phone with this? Can I keep my landline phone number?

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